baseballmusings.com - 7/4/2009
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Joe Mauer went 2 for 6 Friday night in a 16 inning Tiger/Twins marathon. The Tigers got off to a 6-0 lead by the third inning, and extended it to 7-1 after 3 1/2. The Twins brought it back to five in the bottom of the inning, then scored five runs in the sixth inning to tie the game. In the ...
Joe Mauer Watch
baseballmusings.com 6/17/2009 — Joe Mauer finishes the night four for four, raising his batting average to .429. It was a big night in Joe’s quest to hit .400 for the season, as he cut the odds of his reaching that goal in half. Based on a 162 game season, the probability of ...
Joe Mauer Watch
baseballmusings.com 7/12/2009 — Joe Mauer went 0 for 4 in an 8-7 loss to the White Sox Saturday. That drops his batting average to .381,and brings his odds of hitting .400 to the longest of the year. For the first time, his odds, based on a 162 game season, are worse that 1 in 1000. Based on a 140 game season, they are about ...
Joe Mauer Watch
baseballmusings.com 6/14/2009 — Joe Mauer picked up three hits in five at bats this afternoon against the Cubs to raise his batting average to .414. That improves the probability of his hitting .400 to a little under 1 in 100, based on a 162 game season and 1 in 613, based on a 140 game season (due to Mauer’s late ...
Joe Mauer Watch
baseballmusings.com 7/1/2009 — The Twins down the Cardinals 6-2 as Francisco Liriano pitches a great game. He goes seven innings, allowing four hits while walking two and striking out six. The two runs he allowed came on three straight hits in the fifth, the first two doubles.
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Word To Your Mauer! What would Joe's MC name be?
sports.yahoo.com 7/2/2009 — These are heady times for Joe Mauer . Not only is he a few plate appearances from qualifying for the league leader board and preparing for yet another All-Star trip, several teammates have started to leak the details of another post-baseball ...
The Greatness Of Joe Mauer
fangraphs.com 6/20/2009 — On the front page, over there on the right hand side, you’ll see some top five leaderboards for our win based statistics that we track on the site - WAR and WPA. If you look at the top of the list for batters in WAR, you’ll notice Joe ...
Joe Mauer Watch
baseballmusings.com 6/26/2009 — The Twins defeated the Brewers 6-4 Thursday afternoon with Joe Mauer going 2 for 5 to raise his batting average to .395. He stabilized his probability of hitting .400 after a short slump. The odds of his hitting .400 are now about 1 in 265 based on a ...
Mauer/Suzuki Watch
baseballmusings.com 7/1/2009 — Joe Mauer went 1 for 4 Tuesday night to lower his batting average to .383. Right now, he sits 10 plate appearances short of qualifying for the AL batting title lead. Ichiro collected two hits in four at bats against the Yankees, raising his batting average to .373. Right now, Ichiro leads the ...
Mauer’s Fans
baseballmusings.com 5/26/2009 — Joe Posnanski nails the conventional wisdom on Joe Mauer :
I felt so strongly that Mauer was the league’s MVP last year, that I voted for him … one of two people who did. It just seemed to me that a Gold Glove catcher who leads the league in hitting and is second in on-base percentage is a ...
What Do the Twins Do With Joe Mauer?
thebiglead.com 5/29/2009 — Joe Mauer is not off to a bad start – .425/.514/.862. with 11 home runs in 87 AB. Nothing too exciting.
He has a career 133 OPS+ as a catcher. He is just 26 years old. He is awesome. He is marketable. Teams covet him. Mauer’s indentured ...
Tigers 11, Twins 9 —
NYT > Baseball 7/4/2009
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Placido Polanco hit a pair of extra-inning RBI singles, the second giving the Detroit Tigers the lead for good in an 11-9 victory over the Minnesota Twins in 16 innings Friday night.
SP Slowey (wrist) placed on DL —
SI.com - MLB 7/4/2009
Minnesota Twins right-hander Kevin Slowey has been placed on the 15-day disabled list with a strained wrist following his start against the Detroit Tigers.
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